Should people be allowed to skip completing high school (or the skills-assessment equivalent) and go to college anyway?
On a personal level, I have objections to this for the same reason that I was miffed by the girls (and guys) who managed to worm their way out of the required two years of gym class for one reason or another.
I had to do it. It was not necessarily any more pleasant for me than the next person and probably less so some days. Why should other people get off, opt out, have special privileges?
On the other hand, life isn’t fair. Some people have more advantages than others. We don’t start on an even playing field and things happen that we don’t always anticipate or plan for.
Whether it is true or not, the message is out there that success in life requires a college degree, although a college degree does not *ensure* success.
Whatever success is … some idea concerning money, personal fulfillment, and prestige that motivates Americans (you really have to have all three to fit this definition of success) …
Anyway, is the only option to “level the playing field” for those among us who do not finish high school or the GED for whatever reason? How will this affect college education in the United States?
I guess in some ways, I do believe that for any experience, you “get out of it what you put into it”, so maybe it doesn’t really matter. We shouldn’t be so bound by “doing things by the book.”
But should people who follow the rules and deal with the aggravations get shafted? Or are we just upset because we want to “get ahead”?
Hmmmm ….